Guild Wars 2

I was wondering if anyone else had really bad FPS (from 5fps to 15) since one of the daily Wintersday patches (perhaps the 3rd or 4th one?). I’ve a new AMD 7770, Win7 64-bit, i3-2120 and nothing helps in terms of playing at the lowest resolutions, textures etc.

I have another PC at home with the same CPU, an older AMD card(57xx) and 32-bit Win7 that seems to be running perfectly so I’ve ruled out Internet lag. I’ve tried upgrading to the latest Catalyst as well as reverting to older versions – nothing helps.

Sadly, this problem together with the Right-Mouse problem (see http://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/support/tech/Mouse-losing-focus-right-click-to-turn-not-working-Merged – I even bought a new Naga mouse to replace my Logitech G9x before reading that this is a widespread problem) is this close to turning me off GW2

Help!

Bad motherboard or video card take it back where you bought it and say WTF.
Or call their tech suport.

Just a few things come to mind video card is installed in the wrong slot on the motherboard, not running @ X16 bus speed, underpowered or dying power supply.
Download and run Techpowerup GPU-Z 0.6.6 open it up and look what it says about your card the main thing to look for is Bus Interface it should say thisPCI-E 2.0×16 @ X16 2.0

Thanks for the reply.

GPU-Z says that the card supports PCI-E x16 V3.0 and is running on x1 V2.0, however I’m running Far Cry 3 at 1920 × 1080 on Ultra smoothly.

Before the Wintersday patches everything was working perfectly, afterwards – low FPS. I didn’t change anything in the card’s location etc.

PCI-E at x1 will seriously affect performance in GW2, some games use more bandwidth than others.

Are you sure you´ve tested correctly with GPU-Z?

The power-saving of your OS can throttle down this setting. GPU-Z has therefore a special tool in its latest version.
Just click on the question mark next to the businterface and activate the rendertest.
If you still only get “@x1 2.0” then you are severely limiting your hardware. No matter what Far Cry thinks!
And I bet Far Cry will like it too when you finally put your GFX card in the slot it´s supposed to be. Usually right next to the Processor.

And do yourself a favor and upgrade that other 32bit Win7 to 64bit. You can reuse the old code and even download the right ISO from Microsoft for free.

thanks for all your feedback guys – going to open up the system and see what went where. Will update accordingly

Well apparently, the card was in the correct slot (the x16 slot – my MoBo is an ASUS P8H61M LE that has one PCI-E x16 and an x1 PCI-E slot) so I guess either GPU-Z was giving false results, or I’ve gotten something horribly misconfigured somewhere.

Thanks anyhow

Again, make sure you´ve got the latest GPU-Z version and use that green question mark to test it properly.
Other than that it might be some weird mobo bug, google your mobo on this.

Thanks Hawk, GPU-Z is the latest version and I’m using the green question mark – I’m going down the Mobo bug / google path now

A x16 PCI-E slot is usualy one thats closer to CPU socet.

You could also upgrade your BIOS in case. Also at this mobo You should have a switch between 2 bios setups. In that case if upgrading BIOS fails ou can switch and check does it help.

This has to be CPU problem some kind of.
It’s not graphical issue cause im having an i3-3220/Gtx 260 on board and im getting fine FPS.

The issue You discribed occured for me with my old CPU. No matter what graphical setting i’ve put on game had same fps over and over again.

The i3 series CPU have an function to work in 2 diff clocks. x33/x16 depending on CPU usage to not overuse CPU.

Make Sure Your CPU is going back to x33 (prolly it’s 3,1or 3.2ghz for your CPU instead of working at 1,5-1,6ghz) I saw once that issue. Cpu was “broken” and didn’t want to get back on it’s usual clocks.

As You bought this rig You just put in parts and started System or reinstalled all stuff all over again ? cause this also may be the problem.

Also wintersday patch was heavy, it added a lot of stuff. for example my fps form 42-45 in LA dropped to 22-24.

Thanks Mrowqa,

1. I’m on the latest (post Wintersday) patch1. I upgraded motherboard BIOS to the very latest – didn’t make any difference
2. Tried using the onboard i3 graphics, not brilliant but still much better than the 7770
3. I bought the system all at once
4. Where could I check for the x33 CPU thing you mentioned?

Thanks!

lol ok, since nothing else seems to be working, I’ll go the WTF route

thanks everyone

the multiplier with which Your CPU is working can be checked in CPU-z program, just download it.

Also cna be some kind of error with your graphic card.
When you open GPU-z ( if you don’t have – download it ) go to sensors page and while playing GW2 let gpu-z be opened and record results. at some point alt+tab game to see with what frequency your GPu/mem/Shaders are working with.

I’ve seen some graphic cards set to 1000 ghz clocks and somehow rolling on 339ghz or lower then they should.

Also what PSU you got ? ( power supply ?) cause maybe it’s to low and can’t handle the 7770 with i3 on full load?

Wondercrisp.9570:

I was wondering if anyone else had really bad FPS (from 5fps to 15) since one of the daily Wintersday patches (perhaps the 3rd or 4th one?). I’ve a new AMD 7770, Win7 64-bit, i3-2120 and nothing helps in terms of playing at the lowest resolutions, textures etc.

I have another PC at home with the same CPU, an older AMD card(57xx) and 32-bit Win7 that seems to be running perfectly so I’ve ruled out Internet lag. I’ve tried upgrading to the latest Catalyst as well as reverting to older versions – nothing helps.

Sadly, this problem together with the Right-Mouse problem (see http://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/support/tech/Mouse-losing-focus-right-click-to-turn-not-working-Merged – I even bought a new Naga mouse to replace my Logitech G9x before reading that this is a widespread problem) is this close to turning me off GW2

Help!

your issue could very well be the cpu bottle necking the gpu also who ever said a pci 2.1 x16 being put into a x1 spot is wrong it doesnt fit you would have to cut the plastic to fit into that spot think 7770 uses two 6 pins so that and a x16 lane should be more then enough power even on a 450 watt psu using one hdd the cpu listed